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Saturday, February 12, 2011

ABS Nationals Wrap Up

Format

Qualifiers - 6 problems - 4 minutes each

Semi Finals - 3 problems - 4 minutes each

Finals - 3 problems - 5 minutes each - long rest between each problem

Placement

After qualifiers - 7th place

After semi finals - 7th place

After finals - 7th place

Full results

semi - finals #1 (photo: Dane Cronin)

I got psyched on monday for nationals

Training monday and wednesday

was it enough?

enough for me to make it to finals, but finals got hard!

finals #3 (photo: Dane Cronin)

i have not been motivated lately,

don't really know the reason for it

maybe because i've been climbing for 14 years

maybe because i just didn't have time

either way, it's done

getting psyched!

the venue (photo: Dane Cronin)

nationals was a great event

awesome problems

good setting

awesome holds

AMAZING walls

one of the best competitions that i've been to!

can't wait to get back home and get to some training

looking forward to working on a lot of different things

a) stretching

b) core

c) power

d) crimps

e) bunched body/ feet high up

f) dynamic movement

g) endurance

Also wanted to thank my sponsors for everything that they have provided me with!

Organic Climbing, La Sportiva, Verve and New England Ropes!

THANK YOU!

Sunday, February 6, 2011

ABS Nationals!

next weekend

can't believe it

it was so far away and now its just a few days away!

oh boy, it's going to be exciting!

Saturday, January 22, 2011

I did it!

After about 4 months of not sending anything

4 months ago meaning sending a new v6 at hound ears

before that i don't even remember when i had done something new

but today

i did it

i completed a new rock climb

a really fun climb at Lilly Boulders

i think the name is "Now and Later"

that's what jimmy told me, i'll double check sometime in the future

but i was so psyched

tomorrow, Jimmy, Rami and I are going back out there

for all of us to try something new and finished off somethings tried today

getting the long lost psych back!

Sunday, January 16, 2011

ABS Regionals

Woke up at 8am

left the house at 8:45am

got to the gym a little after 9am

didn't leave the gym till 10pm!

LONG DAY!

BUT...

had 7 kids competing at regionals...

AJ Hanson, Luke Holmes, Lydia Fogo, Max Glascock, Anna Fox, Evan Fox and Savage Glascock

out of the seven, five of them made it to finals!!

In finals they all climbed really well, especially since it was all of their first times doing a regional competition (except for Anna)... they were all nervous, but now after the fact I think they will all be fine and not nervous at the next big competition... HOPEFULLY!

I wasn't able to watch the girls climb because I stayed in iso with the boys. I was able to watch Max, Evan and AJ... could definitely tell they were nervous, but they still climbed really well... Evan cut his thumb open on the second climb. In a way set him back, but he tried the third problem and did great on it. AJ was tied going to the third problem, but due to his fingers hurting he didn't trust them in the two finger pockets, so he came up with some crazy beta that got him nowhere. Max sent his first problem second try, and then his nervous kicked in. He got his beta confused on the second and third problems. But after the comp, after showing him the beta, he knew that it was just his nerves. Next time he'll dominate.

Overall the results were as follows:

Anna got 1st - got an invitation to nationals

Lydia got 7th

Evan got 3rd

Max got 4th

Luke got 4th

Savage got 6th

AJ got 3rd

pictures will be posted soon